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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2000  > June  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 June 2000
Vol. 77 No. 6

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
To Stretch and Search for Better Ways677
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers679
J. Emory Howell
Association Reports: CHED
Secretary's Report, April 2000680
J. L. Sarquis
Meeting Reports
Presidential Plenary Sessions: Report on Three American Chemical Society Presidential Events684
Nancy S. Gettys
Meeting Reports
Public Understanding of Chemistry, ACS National Meeting688
Nancy S. Gettys
The Information Page692
Summer Reading693
Jeffrey Kovac, Richard Pagni, Harold H. Harris, and Brian P. Coppola
Meeting Reports
Conference Overview: 16th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, University of Michigan, July 30-August 3, 2000697
Seyhan N. Ege
Blackboard Experience of a Chemistry Teacher699
Ann Cartwright
Blackboard Overview by a Technology Coordinator700
Sue Rodgers
NSF Highlights
Spectroscopic Determination of Ternary Phase Diagrams701
Kerry K. Karukstis, Sara K. Avrantinis, Stephanie L. Boegeman, Jeanie N. Conner, Blaine M. Hackman, Jennifer M. Lindsay, Alexander L. Mandel, and Elizabeth J. Miller
News & Announcements703
Book and Media Reviews
Excel for Chemists: A Comprehensive Guide (by E. Joseph Billo)705
reviewed Jeffery A. Greathouse
Book and Media Reviews
Modern Analytical Chemistry, 1st Edition (by David Harvey)705
reviewed Jack G. Goldsmith
Book and Media Reviews
Molecular Modeling on the PC (by Matthew F. Schlecht)706
reviewed Frank Rioux
Book and Media Reviews
Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media (by Chao-Jun Li and Tak-Hang Chan)707
reviewed Alan M. Rosan
Book and Media Reviews
Why Science? (by R. Stephen White)708
reviewed Myra Halpin
Advertising in This Issue708

 Chemistry for Everyone
The Thermodynamics and Kinetics of "HeaterMeals": An Exercise in Undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry713
William B. Jensen

 In The Classroom
A Closer Look at Phase Diagrams for the General Chemistry Course718
Stephen A. Gramsch
Melting Point and Molecular Symmetry724
R. J. C. Brown and R. F. C. Brown
A Thermodynamic Analysis to Explain the Boiling-Point Isotope Effect for Molecular Hydrogen732
D. Blane Baker and Byron K. Christmas
SOS: A Mnemonic for the Stereochemistry of Glucose734
Ronald Starkey
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Flow Injection as a Teaching Tool for Gravimetric Analysis735
Raquel P. Sartini, Elias A. G. Zagatto, and Cláudio C. Oliveira
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Simulation of Impedance Spectra: A Computational and Electrochemical Exercise for University Students738
J. J. García-Jareño, D. Benito, A. Sanmatías, and F. Vicente

 In the Laboratory
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Separation and Quantification of Preservatives Using Ion Pair HPLC and CZE: An Extended Investigation of Separation Mechanisms740
Mary Boyce and Evadne Spickett
Analysis of Diet Tonic Water Using Capillary Electrophoresis. An Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis Experiment743
Harvey B. Herman, John R. Jezorek, and Zhe Tang
Studying Thermally Induced Chemical and Physical Transformations in Common Synthetic Polymers: A Laboratory Project745
Steven C. Hodgson, John D. Orbell, Stephen W. Bigger, and John Scheirs
Measuring Soil Phosphates Using Ion-Exchange Resins: A Final Project for Freshman Chemistry748
Donald A. Storer and A. M. Sarquis
The Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Esters: Three Related Investigative Experiments750
Chriss E. McDonald
Enantiomeric and Diastereoisomeric Relationships: A Practical Approach752
V. Durieu, G. Martiat, M. Ch. Vandergeten, F. Pirsoul, F. Toubeau, and Agnès Van Camp
Effective, Safe, and Inexpensive Microscale Ultrasonic Setup for Teaching and Research Labs754
Angel M. Montaña and Pedro M. Grima
The Microscale Laboratory
The Heck Reaction: A Microscale Synthesis Using a Palladium Catalyst757
William B. Martin and Laura J. Kateley
The Microscale Laboratory
Microscale Synthesis of Hexaamminechromium(III) Nitrate Using Liquid Ammonia Generated in the Laboratory760
Edward Maslowsky Jr.

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
Using Particulate Drawings to Determine and Improve Students' Conceptions of Pure Substances and Mixtures762
Michael J. Sanger
Chemical Education Research
Predictors of Nursing Students' Performance in a One-Semester Organic and Biochemistry Course767
Robert J. Van Lanen, Nancy M. Lockie, and Thomas McGannon
Stochastics, the Basis of Chemical Dynamics771
Robert de Levie
Application of the Correlation Method to Vibrational Spectra of C60 and Other Fullerenes: Predicting the Number of IR- and Raman-Active Bands775
Kazuo Nakamoto and Michael A. McKinney
The Antibonding Effect780
Derek W. Smith

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
Orbital Plots Using Gnuplot785
Brian G. Moore
Molecular Orbital Animations for Organic Chemistry790
Steven A. Fleming, Greg R. Hart, and Paul B. Savage
Teaching with Technology
Computational Investigations for Undergraduate Organic Chemistry: Modeling Markovnikov and anti-Markovnikov Reactions for the Formation of Alkyl Halides and Alcohols794
Rita K. Hessley
JCE Online
Chemists, Access, Statistics798
Jon L. Holmes
JCE Software
Chemistry Comes Alive!, Volume 4: Abstract of Special Issue 25 on CD-ROM799
Jerrold J. Jacobsen, Gordon Bain, Kara Bruce, and John W. Moore
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